Vanderbilt v. . Schreyer’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Maurice O'Meara Co. v. National Park Bank (1925), Seybolt v. . the N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. Co. (1884)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 16 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bookstaver v. . Jayne · Lattimore v. Harsen · Comstock v. . Drohan · Ehle v. Judson · Reynolds v. Nugent
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Pollock states tlxe rulo as follows: That ‘neither the promise to do a thing nor the actual doing of it will be a good consideration if it is a thing which the party-is bound to do by the general law, or by a subsisting contract with the other party.’ Pol. Cont. 161; Crosby v. Wood, 6 N. Y. 369 ; Deacon v. Gridley, 15 C. B. 295 . ‘Nor is the performance of that which the party was under a previous valid, legal obligation to do sufficient consideration for a contract’ 2 Pars. Cont. 437.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.